Non-refillable bottle.



PATENTED 001'. 9, 1906.

' B. SHARP. NON-REPILLABLB BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 8, 1906.

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BYRON SHARP, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

Application filed January 8, 1906. Serial No. 294,988.

zen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to the type of bottles known as non-refillable bottles.

While the device herein-described and connection with the valve or closure and parts shown and claimed in my pending application, filed October 13, 1905, Serial No. 282,576, it may be used in connection with any other form of valve or closure and is designed especially to prevent manipulation by wires or other means with any known 7 to the guard-disk 5.

form of closures for non-refillable bottles.

In the drawings, in which like numbers of reference denote like parts wherever they occur, Figure 1 is a sectional view of the neck of a bottle embodying my device. Fig. 2 is a similar view, the bottle being tilted downward; and Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the device.

The wall of the neck of the bottle contains therein an annular groove 2, adapted to receive the leaf-spring 3, which may be attached by any suitable means, as screws 4,

The unattached portions of said springs 3 project in opposite directions relative to each other. A peripheral groove 6 in the disk 5 receives the leaf-springs 3 at the point of attachment to the disk and is adapted to receive even the protruding portions of said springs when the disk 5 is introduced into the narrow part of the neck of the bottle.

The guard-disk 5 may be formed of any reticulated or forarninous material; but for convenience I have shown it in the drawings as taking the form of a pair of diaphragms 7 and 8, having a plurality of openings 9 therethrough, the openings in the upper diaphragm being arranged in staggered relation to those in the lower diaphragm, so that no opening in the lower diaphragm registers with any of the openings of the upper dia phragm.

After the bottle has been filled the closure 10, which I have illustrated in the drawings and fully described in my said pending application, Serial No. 282,57 6, though any other valve or closure can be used, is in serted. Then my guard disk, with the springs fitting into the recess or peri heral groove 6, is forced into the neck of the ottle. When the springs come opposite the groove 2, they snap out into place, engage the groove 2, and the disk is held firmly in place. The liquid in the bottle can flow through the guard-disk when the bottle is held inthe inverted position illustrated in Fig. 2; but the disk prevents any tampering with or manipulation of the valve intended to catch it while open and hold it so. This disk can be used to advantage with any form of valve or 010- sure which might be so constructed as to render it liable to be tampered with while open, and where the valve or other device for preventing refilling might be held open when in the process of emptyin the'bottle it may have been so opened and t e insertion of a wire thereinto made possible.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the character described, the combination with the neck-wall of the bottle having an annular groove therein of a guard-disk consistin of an upper and a lower member, both of which members have openings therethrough, and in which the openings through the lower member are arranged in staggered relation to those in the other, and springs on said guard-disk adapted to hold said disk in said groove.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination withthe neck-wall of the bottle of a guard-disk containing non-registering upper and lower openings, said neckwall containing a groove, and springs on said disk adapted to fit into said groove.

3. In a device of the character described, the combination with the neck-wall of the bottle of a valve-controlled closure, guard means thereabove containing openings in two banks, the upper ones being in non-registering relation to the lower ones, and s rings on said guard means adapted to ho d the same in fixed relation to the closure, there being a groove in said neck-wall into which said springs are adapted to fit.

4. In a device of the character described, the combination of the neck-wall of a bottle having a groove therein, a guard-disk seated therein, and springs attached to said disk and protruding into said groove.

5. In a device of the character described, the combination of the neck-wall of a bottle with grooves therein and a guard-disk held in one of said grooves preventing and restrictin access to a valve or closure seated in the ot er groove.

6. In a device of the character described, the combination of the neck-wall of a bottle having a groove therein and a guard-disk, said guard-disk consisting of two integrallyformed foraminous diaphragms with nonregistering openings, and sprmgs protruding from the guard-disk and entering said groove.

7. In a device of the character described, the combination with the neck-wall of a bottle of'a-guard-disk seated therein, leaf-springs protruding from said disk, said disk having a peripheral'groove adapted to form a recess in which the protruding ends of said springs sink as they are inserted in the neck of the bottle.

8. In a device of the character described, the combination of the neck-wallof a bottle having a groove therein and a guard-disk, said guard-disk consisting of two integrallythe combination with the neck-wall of thebottle of a guard-disk consisting of an upper anda lower diaphragm, there-being non-registering openingsthrough said diaphra ms, and-springs attached to and protruding from said disk, said springs being adaptedto hold said disk at a-predeterminedposition in the neck of the bottle.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

BY RON SHARP.

Witnesses:

ELLIOTT R. GOLDSMITH, GEO. G. ANDERSON. 

